This map shows selected locations of Oxfam's East Africa food crisis response in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Oxfam aims to reach more than 3.5 million people with water, sanitation, food, cash transfers and more. Please support our biggest ever emergency appeal for Africa.
0: Ifo II extension camp (Dadaab refugee complex) Ver detalle |
1: Ifo I refugee camp (Dadaab refugee complex) Ver detalle |
2: Ga'anLibah: Why drought doesn't have to lead to disaster Ver detalle |
3: Afmadow: Getting aid into Somalia – difficult but not impossible Ver detalle |
4: Photo: Water trucks prepare to set off from Burao, Somaliland Ver detalle |
5: Photo: Cash for work in Wajir: Hussein Hassan helps prepare the hole for a latrine Ver detalle |
6: Video: An Oxfam plumber in Dadaab Ver detalle |
7: Video: Latrine leaders in Dadaab Ver detalle |
8: Video: Oxfam aid flight to Somalia Ver detalle |
9: Bringing water to Hindeysa, Ethiopia Ver detalle |
10: Somalia: community care improves childrens' health Ver detalle |
11: Nachukui, Turkana, Kenya: Cash transfer program Ver detalle |
12: Cash transfer program in Loruth, Turkana, Kenya Ver detalle |
13: Yabelo, Borena zone, Ethiopia Ver detalle |
14: Negele, Guji Zone, Ethiopia Ver detalle |
15: Bale zone, Ethiopia Ver detalle |
16: Western Arsi, Arsi zone Ver detalle |
17: Dire Dawa, Shinile zone, Ethiopia Ver detalle |
18: Afder zone, Somali region, Ethiopia Ver detalle |
19: Dolo Ado refugee camp, Ethiopia Ver detalle |
20: Dolo Ado town, Ethiopia Ver detalle |
21: Tigray, Ethiopia Ver detalle |
22: Tigray, Ethiopia Ver detalle |
23: Mogadishu: Searching for clean water in Somalia Ver detalle |
24: Video: Scarlett Johansson visits Dadaab Ver detalle |
25: Video: Scarlett Johansson visits Turkana, Kenya Ver detalle |
26: Video: Scarlett Johansson visits Lodwar Ver detalle |
27: Video: Scarlett Johansson visits reception center at Dadaab Ver detalle |
Oxfam's local partner in Ga'anLibah in Somaliland has started a new initiative of simple but innovative solutions to help the land recover. Read the blog
Oxfam’s local partner WASDA operates programs to drought-hit communities in north-eastern Kenya and in Somalia itself.
WASDA's program manager Bashir Mohamed speaks about the challenges of getting aid to those who need it most. Read the blog
Our innovative program with local Somalia NGO SAACID has treated more than 136,000 malnourished children and their mothers. Here is the story of Mohamed, one of the children who has recovered from severe illness and malnutrition. Read the story
Jacinta runs one of 5 trader shops in the village of Nachukui. She started her business selling basic food supplies (flour, beans, corn) in 1994. She is a widow, and the main breadwinner for her family. Read more
Sabina Loliyak, 35, cooks a meal for her family. Sabina Loliyak has 8 children and is a beneficiary of Oxfam's emergency cash transfer program in Loruth, North Turkana. Read more
In Borena zone, Oxfam is combining livelihoods activities with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs. Oxfam's livelihoods response includes cash for work
activities focussing on creating and
rehabilitating local water sources to
ensure sustainable access to water for
communities. Oxfam is also working directly with cooperatives in each district, supporting them through training and grants for grain purchase, and engaging with suppliers in the larger urban centre to ensure that grain is made available in the markets.
Oxfam has an office in Negele, Guji Zone, Oromiya region, Ethiopia and runs water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) activities and emergency food security and livelihoods (EFSL) programs.
Oxfam has an office in Arsi zone, Ethiopia
Oxfam's office in Shinile zone is located in Dire Dawa, Somali region. Oxfam is providing aid through water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) activities. Oxfam's also running livelihoods and cash for work activities, including training for animal health workers and distribution of supplementary food for livestock.
In Shinile, Oxfam is working with 20 women food supplier groups, some of them cooperatives, each with between 9 and 39 members. We are providing them with training on business practices and community cereal banking to strengthen their business, and we are putting them in touch with wholesalers.
In Dolo Ado Hiloweyn refugee camp, we are providing water and sanitation for
refugees from Somalia. 312 latrines have been built so far (Nov. 2011), with
handwashing stations at each, and 88 more latrines are under way, and
a pipeline is being constructed between the river and the camp. Waste management training and public health promotion activities are ongoing, and buckets and soap have been given to 3,469 households
(20,814 people).
Oxfam is providing chlorinated water to local
communities who host refugees from Somalia, in Dolo Ado town (Liben zone).
In Tigray, the focus so far has been on cash for work activities, initially rehabilitating and constructing ponds and basins and planting seedlings to improve pasture. Oxfam teams are also working on constructing check dams, terracing hill sides, and constructing 5 km of access road. Oxfam will begin soon WASH activities.
Mohamed Hassan is a Public Health Coordinator, working in Mogadishu for HIJRA, an Oxfam partner. There are now more than 100 camps for displaced Somalis scattered around the capital. Clean water can make the difference between life and death in such a poverty-stricken environment.
Read more
Watch on YouTube: Scarlett Johansson in Dadaab
Watch on YouTube: Scarlett Johansson visits Turkana, Kenya
Watch on YouTube: Scarlett Johansson in Lodwar, Northern Kenya
Watch on YouTube: Scarlett Johansson visits Dadaab reception center